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Personal Description:

Hi. My name is Sarah and I am an enthusiastic primary teacher! My warm and friendly nature has enabled me to work with a number of different children, inspiring them to engage with their learning and make progress across a wide range of subjects. Having qualified in 2003, I have spent the past 11 years developing my teaching skills with children from reception up to year 6.

In my spare time I enjoy socialising with friends, running,swimming, reading and I am in a knitting group. My love of the outdoors has enabled me to enjoy the local coastline since moving to the area 5 years ago. I attend our local church too. Within this, I have spent a lot of time working with groups of children, encouraging them to read and think creatively with their peers.

Tutoring Experience:

After passing my newly qualified teacher year in 2003 in key stage 2 (my class consisted of years 5 and 6), I went on to develop my teaching skills in a variety of schools with pupils from many different backgrounds. This has allowed me to adapt to new environments easily, and build rapports with students. I have worked with a wide age range from reception to year 6, and am confident in subject delivery across all ages. Having built up a bank of resources, I am able to adapt these in order to meet the needs of indvidual students. I do this with every pupil I tutor, so they are able to progress to their best ability.

Alongside this, I have worked as a supply support worker at a special needs school. I helped teach primary and secondary school children, as well as sixth formers. Special needs included Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Down's Syndrome, physical disabilities and general learning difficulties. This role helped me develop skills to allow these pupils to reach their potential. I also developed a more in depth knowledge of special educational needs and how different young people learn. A caring and understanding role was required…

Tutoring Approach:

An initial meeting involves an informal chat with both parent and child to establish the needs of your child (free of charge) After an initial assessment, I adapt my teaching to suit the needs of your child. I create resources to make learning fun, engaging and practical where possible. Having a wealth of experience with tutoring has developed my passion for working with individual children and seeing their success.

I have lots of patience and a good rapport with my tutees. A hard work ethic and passion for teaching has helped me structure a conscientious learning plan and I aim to meet with parents/carers regularly to review pupils' progress. The outcome of this has ensured that all previous tutees have made progress whilst working with me.

Qualifications:

Stoke-on-Trent City Council (2007) - Fully Qualifed Teacher Status (Professional)(✘ Not On File)

The University of Aberystwyth (2004) - Qualified Teacher Status (PGCE)(✘ Not On File)

The University of Liverpool (2002) - Psychology and Neuroscience (Bachelors)(✘ Not On File)

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SarahFrom Emma (5/5): (Primary English)My daughters confidence has grown lots in just the few weeks working with Sarah.
Sarah is very professional and works with my daughter at a level she understands, using a variety of different teaching techniques to keep the work she is doing fun. Highly recommend.

SarahFrom Claire (5/5): (Primary Maths)Matthew is very happy with the extra help he is getting with his maths and is really improving in this subject

Reply from Sarah: Thank you for your comments.

SarahFrom Colin (5/5): (Primary Maths)Sarah has proved reliable and extremely good with our daughter. She has been reliable and consistent each week and is flexible in her tuition to allow time to work through any problems our daughter may have had at school.

SarahFrom Margaret (5/5): (Primary English)Sarah has been a real blessing to our Grand daughter. She put her at her ease and helped her to understand subjects both in English and Maths. She is a lovely lady and our Grand daughter loves her and is already feeling more confident about her school work. So that speaks for itself. If our Grand daughter is happy then we are happy. We would gladly recommend Sarah to anyone thinking of getting their child that extra bit of help.

SarahFrom Mark (5/5): (Primary Maths)We have been very pleased with our son's progress since he began being tutored by Sarah. He now shows a lot of confidence and motivation to learn and enjoys every session. Sarah has built an excellent relationship with him to the extent that he sees his tutoring as an enjoyable activity to look forward to. We have no hesitation in recommending Sarah as a tutor.